Grigory Sokolov playing Rameau Les Sauvages

[Messiaen]

Impossibly good!

[Modu]

Perfection style presentation from early Barok period.

Thanks for this beautiful video...

[scholym]

I'm speechless. Superb!!!1

[Kievest]

Passion and finesse! Intoxicating playing. Thank you for posting and to

paulostroff99 for sharing.

[amezcuaist]

As a non player it`s fascinating to see the fierce arguments that rage between you all. I agree that the pianissimo playing is so fine.Good that you all have such a stunning hero to enjoy.

[darkblueangel1956]

Non oso pensare a come eseguirebbe William Byrd, Couperin, Scarlatti o addirittura Frescobaldi !!!! Santo cielo, che raffinatezza ... elefantiaca !!!

[olivia7793]

das ist sehr fantastisch,wie schön!

[pianist626262]

WOnderful!!!

[d3o1r0i3n1a989]

I really like this piece and his playing but most of all his ped. You nearly can't hear him using it....10 * from me :)

[Messiaen]

The pianissimo from 0:58 blew me away.... and the ornaments on 1:11... How the hell is it even possible?

[AldenHardaway]

Absolutely astonishing. Moments like 1:45 take my breath away. I've never heard such intensely precise articulation!

[Aktinovolos]

O! M! G!!!!

[gassyjeff]

Ineffable

[kaetuoq]

I learnt that way of playing a long time ago from Albert Levêque. It is a marvelous way of interpreting that sort of music on the piano. Not being a great fan of the tinny sound of the clavicembalo, I think Rameau himself would have preferred this way of doing things :-)

[BettyCope]

Beautifully done! Thank you!

[V9o8x7]

Amazing! I can not imagine this is similar to a pianist who is able to do so?

[hpcine]

Impressive andemotional - both brain and heart are moved!

[71002943]

(Y) szuper!

[eneduoc]

On ne peut comparer à Madame Meyer : ce sont deux conceptions très différentes du jeu des partitions de la période sur "piano moderne".

[Johannes999999999]

I do not like the turns of the piano. If one does it at all it should be on a harpsichord in mt opinion.

[benedetti]

@Johannes999999999 Ridiculous!

[pianotonton]

C'est brillant pianistiquement, mais ce n'est musicalement pas très bon, c'est même très discutable... Cherchez Marcelle Meyer, pour s'en tenir au piano, dans la même pièce : pianistiquement aussi indiscutable, mais musicalement tout autre chose/

[PointyTail]

Man, if anyone could be said to at the same level of absolute mastery of the Baroque as Glenn Gould, it's Sokolov. His perfection is awe-inspiring.

[elfenomeno777]

Wonderful!

[Cathayline]

Comparing Sokolovou with the playing of Sandro Bisotti , I just can't help thinking that Bisotti's has more brightness in it and it conveys the serene impulses more than Sokolov's interpretation. It may sound presumptuous to judge it like that but I can't help it! =) Just hear yourself and decide!

PS: Of course there's no discussion about Sokolov's technical brilliance!

[Messiaen]

@Cathayline

Are you nuts? Comparing Sokolov to Sandro Bisotti is like comparing a Formel 1 race car with a bicycle.

[MaestroINVY]

Veramente eccellente! complimenti!

[Zornament]

Guys, this is just perfect.

[metteholm75]

No, heavy he is definitely not. Some people think, that french especially ornamentation is intellecually demanding.

Some find his playing very secretive.

He is just doing that very unusual thing: playing the piano technically piano-wise, and musically harpsicord-wise.

[sam0xin]

He is specially.... MASTER of ornaments...BRILLIANT ! Absolute PERFECTION !!! GENIUS !

[metteholm75]

I never heard anyone perform true french ornamentation this light on a piano. Fantastic!

[sam0xin]

@ metteholm: You are right ! but see , some audience had a totally & extremely opposite point of view..at freeqwerqwer ( has a 3 comments..) by him/her this performance is...HEAVY & PHILOSOPHICAL...COULD YOU IMAGINE ?

[sam0xin]

p.s. if comment invisible, you have to push on Reply...blue link... on the right.

[terrygowork]

Not Lang Lang , not Yuja Wang, not Perhia.

The good ones are Rafal Blechacz, Solokov, Martha Argerich, Pollini, Yundi Li and maybe many people we dont even know

[catastrouph39]

Je l'aime sokolov

[terrygowork]

@catastrouph39 me too

[catastrouph39]

ENCORE!

[Krinkelss1]

and i was in his concert!) amazing!111

[simonetr81]

Wow !

What else is there to say ? Just : wow!

The english language runs out of words to describe what this keyboard wizard does ... !

Thank you for sharing this with everyone AntonioDGO.

[fingaz000]

This really is quite marvellous

[espirito999]

At the moment it's hard to find anything better: Il y a Sokolov, et il y a les pianistes. (Le Figaro, Paris, November 2007)

[vivacecilia]

Is the same theme of Haendel' s ostinato !!!

[pslogge]

clear, detached notes, eloquent rythm, overall view. Great artist.

[ElisabethLepidi]

Que dire ? C'est excellentissime !

[Babejuda]

What shall I do with you, Mr. Sokolov?!

I cannot hear anything else but you!

You've ruined my pleasurely-leasurely-ut-mornin­g! ;)

[pianist007]

Wow wow wow . . this man never stops to surprise me, what an articulation !!

[ainhoator]

Why doesn't he have the right to de-contextualize ?

[sam0xin]

why you people pushing minuses on baidaiJAY ?

I think he/she means that... it is IMPOSIBLE that human can NOT do this...! rather positive meaning !

[sam0xin]

Thanks God ! We are SO LUCKY to be contemporary of this GENIUS MUSICIAN !

Hail to MASTER SOKOLOV !

[bubinusol]

Sehr gut!

[freeqwerqwer]

I think he plays this piece a tad too much seriously. This piece should have a smile to it. It should just be light, and whimsical, not pensive and heavy.

[cineasta71]

why not pensive and heavy? whats wrong with dense, sad, intense...why it has to be non seriously?

[freeqwerqwer]

Why can't this piece be pensive and heavy? Well because this piece uses a lot of trills. Trills are an ornament, an embelllishment, like a flower. Furthermore, music written in that period of baroque and pre-baroque do not express heavy, pensive, sad, or other such intense moods. That came in the romantic era and after.

[Renshen1957]

Haven't you heard of all the Tombeaus, or Frobergers work that dealth with melancholy? Did the human condition of sadness not exist before 1750? Listen to the Passions of Bach or his Chorale Preludes.

[SendMeLies]

For starts, this ballet is for a comic opera... not for a tragic one.

[Oblomov18]

this is not heavy this is musical.

[freeqwerqwer]

This piece should be delicate but his playing is too heavy. .It was not restrained enough as demanded by this period. He put too much thought into this piece, almost into the romantic realm. He should just play it lightly, whimsical, and with restrained. Keep it simple, not philosophical.

[Renshen1957]

Reminded me immediately of the Opera Ballet Performance on youtube to a tee.

[veraemick]

БРАВО, МАЭСТРО, БРАВО!!!

А какое счастье "вживую" слышать Вас!

Спасибо за концерт 12.04.2009 в БЗФ!

еще год ждать...

[sam0xin]

@ veraemick ! А вы не скажите где и когда господин Соколов будет концертировать?

Или где можно найти информацию вообще...о нём ???

заранее благодарю.

[katkula]

Actually this piece and Couperin's Tic-Toc-Choc are the only pieces I would be listening to over and over again of all Sokolov's performances

[nbharakey]

That's because you haven't heard his other interpretations.

[lagrandduc]

PARFAIT

[zhoujinquan]

Je trouve qu'il y a un peu de tristesse a l'interieur du jeu de monsieur Sokolov et ca rend ce morceau finalement tres transcendant. Je le trouve un hymne a la liberte d'artiste ce pianiste !

[smudgepots]

Pure keyboard genius! Phenomenal!

[Lieder83]

Fantastic!! the style of clavicembalo in the piano!

A great interpretation!

[wolfgang7445]

Reminds me of how Glenn Gould would mimic the Harpsichord when he played Bach on the piano

[go9zu]

There are no words to express what I feel.I mean...how?how is he playing like that,that's so interesting,so new and so amazing!!Great!

[Sandalfon]

c'est le rondeau des indes galantes plutot

[givemetime123]

Tout simplement Génial, une de mes versions préférées, du rythme et de la gaieté et une parfaite maitrise dans l'exécution des trilles.

Bravo.

Sokolov est indiscutablement un des meilleurs pianistes actuels et il excelle dans la musique "Baroque".

[enantiodrom]

Cos'ha quest'uomo nelle mani? enorme

[sinding81]

:) è UNA BATTUTA?

[enantiodrom]

No, è un'esclamazione :) E' un pianista eccelso.

[bivariis]

ahaha! è vero...suona sporca come battuta...certo che è enorme veramente, in ogni senso (tanto è lo stesso)!

[Sporadicmystic]

FANTASTIC!

[palcsi]

Those ARE amazingly played ornaments.

[chad410]

never liked playing trills. but i recon i could take some lessons from Grigory.